Less than a week after the Islamic State targeted Turkey by attacking the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul and only two days after the terrorist group slaughtered 22 foreign nationals in Bangladesh, the Jihadist organization carried out its deadliest terrorist attack to date.

More than 200 people died, and hundreds of others were wounded in a huge blast that rocked Baghdad’s Karada district on Sunday.

The attack took place in the moments after the breaking of the Ramadan fast when hundreds of Shiite residents of Baghdad took the streets. A truck packed with explosives was blown up by an ISIS suicide bomber in the busy shopping district.

Shortly after the attack, ISIS released the name of the bomber on one of its websites:

“Suicide bomber Abu Maha al-Iraqi blew up his vehicle at Al-Karrada in central Baghdad,” the statement said, adding that the attack was directed at the Shia Muslims.

Many of the victims of the attack were women and children who visited the mall at the moment of the explosion, with many burning to death or suffocating from the smoke.

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The level of destruction in Al-Karrada is massive, with the search for the bodies of missing victims ongoing.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq announced a three-day mourning period in Iraq and visited the scene of the attack in Al-Karrada where he encountered outrage among the residents.

Many Baghdad residents are indignant with the wave of suicide bombings that have significantly increased since ISIS suffered a string of losses on the battlefield and lost the important cities Ramadi and Fallujah which were recaptured by the Iraqi army. They demand more and better security measures and an end to the corruption that has eroded public support for al-Abadi’s government.

The Obama administration reacted to the massacre via National Security Council spokesman Ned Price, who said the ISIS campaign against Baghdad would only strengthen U.S. commitment to the Iraqi army in the battle against the Islamic State.

“These attacks only strengthen our resolve to support Iraqi security forces as they continue to take back territory from ISIL, just as we continue to intensify our efforts to root out ISIL’s terrorist network and leaders,” Price said in a statement.

Only a few hours after Price released this statement, the Islamic State tried to attack the U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A suicide bomber was preparing for the attack on a parking lot opposite the consulate when he was spotted by security officers who approached the man. The terrorist then detonated his suicide belt injuring two of the officers.

A spokesman for the Obama administration said the U.S. was working with the Saudi authorities to collect more information and confirmed that “all personnel under chief-of-mission authority are accounted for at this time.”

On Monday, the Islamic State struck again in Saudi Arabia. A Pakistani suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt while trying to enter the compound where the Prophet Mohammad is buried. Four security guards were killed and three injured in the attack on Islam’s second holiest site. The assault on the tomb of Mohammad, which was captured on video, led to outrage in the Muslim world and led to condemnations of the United Nations and leaders of Muslim states.

A few minutes later, a second attack was reported in the coastal city of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a parking lot next to a Shiite mosque. No casualties were reported.

Meanwhile in Kuwait, authorities foiled an ISIS plot to carry out three major terrorist attacks in the country.

“Kuwait security agencies have carried out three preemptive operations in Kuwait and abroad that led to derailing a number of Islamic State plots targeting Kuwait and arresting several I.S. members,” a statement by the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry read. The ISIS cell consisted of five young men and a middle-aged woman the state news agency KUNA reported Monday.

Kuwait is a member of the 34-nation coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and has been the scene of ISIS’ suicide attacks before.

Indian media reported reported Tuesday that ISIS published an interview with its plans to attack India through its bases in Bangladesh and Pakistan. India Today cited Shaykh Abu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, nicknamed “Amir of Khilafah in Bengal,” who said the Jihadist organization would use Bengal as a beachhead for terror attacks in the predominantly Hindu country.

“A strong jihad base in Bengal will facilitate performing guerrilla attacks inside India simultaneously from both sides and facilitate creating a condition of tawahhush (fear and chaos) in India along with the help of the existing local mujahidin there,” al-Hanif told Dabiq ISIS’ online magazine.

The attacks on Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia together with the foiled plot in Kuwait and the plans to cause mayhem in India show the Islamic State has a very broad reach and is nowhere close to defeat, unlike the Obama administration has often indicated.

The only world leader who really seems to understand that something has to change in the way the world deals with the increasing global threat of the Jihadist organization is Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has just announced he will send Russia’s largest warship to the Mediterranean Sea to take part in the fight against ISIS.

The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier with 15 Sukhoi Su-33 fighters and 15 MiG-29 warplanes, as well as 30 attack helicopters will arrive in the Middle East this autumn British media reported.

The Obama administration has not taken similar measures and apparently believes it can rely on Iran in the war against ISIS. At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Secretary of State John Kerry said Iran was helpful in the war against ISIS.

“Look, we have challenges with Iran as everybody knows and we are working on those challenges. But I can tell you that Iran in Iraq has been in certain ways helpful, and they clearly are focused on ISIL-Daesh, and so we have a common interest, actually,” Kerry claimed.